Re: [squid-users] max header size

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Lokesh Khanna wrote:

> In squid configuration we set maximum header size. By default this value
> is 10 KB request_header_max_size

The current (2.5.STABLE7 or later) default is 20 KB.

> Is 10 KB is too small. I keep on getting a warning message in cache.log
> file. Users are sending request with large header size.
> Can it be because of virus?

Can be any number of things. Usually misbehaving clients of some form.

The default was recently increased from 10 to 20KB as there is some sites
sending very large (or large amount of) cookies, but these are very rare.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Fri Aug 12 2005 - 06:38:53 MDT